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Scope: 713 bills from the 47th–48th Parliaments · votes, speeches & amendments to 14 May 2026
Before Senate Environment and Other Legislation Amendment (Fast Tracking Coal, Gas and Oil Projects) Coal, oil and gas projects could again use faster federal environmental assessment pathways. The Environment Minister could also make exclusion decisions about these projects, declare them national-interest proposals or place them in priority groups for development zones. The bill would remove the EPBC Act's separate legal definition of a “fossil fuel action”, so energy and infrastructure developments would be assessed against the same criteria.
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